I need a high flow showerhead

Okay...so I went out and replaced this shitty showerhead we have in our apartment (shitty in the sense that it is old and small, I want a big round sunflower one). I bought a very nice looking Delta 8" Sunflower. The fucker is limited to 2.5gal/min. This sadly will not do.

I'm looking for those high flow ones. Yes I know in the USofA they are all limited...so I need some help here. In Canada, everything is the 2.5gal/min at home depot. I want something that is like 10 gal/min. I take quick showers but I hate having no water pressure. The pipes put out a good amount of pressure so it is being limited by the head.

I do but I can't open the spout up anymore than it already is. The ball joint that allows you to move the head around has a very small opening...this is threaded as well to hold it together. I can't make it any bigger without destroying the whole thing.

I had shitty pressure at the old house I was renting. FWIW I got an Oxygenics head, somewhat skeptical that it would have any worthwhile effect, but to my delight it made my showering experience much, much better.

Ok, pull the head back off and line up the swivel,the head and the input port so they are in a straight line. Look inside you will see a little hole, less that 1/4 inch. That is your restriction. A regular drill bit, about 3/8" will double your flow. Take your drill and simply drill out that hole. There is nothing in there to destroy if it is standard shower head. So just drill it out and knock the metal shavings out before you reinstall it.

I spray cans of hairspray and paint into the air WHILE running all my showers non-stop and dropping used motor oil down the drain.

Hah! Beat that.

"You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna get myself a 1967 Cadilac El Dorado Convertable! Hot pink! With whale skin hub caps,an all leather cow skin interior, and big brown baby seal eyes for headlights, YEAH! And I'm gonna drive around in that baby at 115 miles per hour, getting one mile per gallon, sucking down Quarter Pounder cheeseburgers from McDonalds in the old-fashioned non-biodegradable Styrofoam containers. And when I'm done sucking down those grease-ball burgers I'm gonna wipe my mouth with the American flag. And then I'm gonna toss the Styrofoam containers right out the side. And there ain't a Goddamn thing anybody can do about it!"

I changed the shower head on my shower and although both old and new are rated at 2.5 gpm, the new one *feels* like there is a lot more water pressure. Amazing how a well-designed device can do more with the same amount of water (ditto goes with low-flow toilets, IME).

I spray cans of hairspray and paint into the air WHILE running all my showers non-stop and dropping used motor oil down the drain.

Hah! Beat that.

"You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna get myself a 1967 Cadilac El Dorado Convertable! Hot pink! With whale skin hub caps,an all leather cow skin interior, and big brown baby seal eyes for headlights, YEAH! And I'm gonna drive around in that baby at 115 miles per hour, getting one mile per gallon, sucking down Quarter Pounder cheeseburgers from McDonalds in the old-fashioned non-biodegradable Styrofoam containers. And when I'm done sucking down those grease-ball burgers I'm gonna wipe my mouth with the American flag. And then I'm gonna toss the Styrofoam containers right out the side. And there ain't a Goddamn thing anybody can do about it!"

Originally posted by BigRedDot:I had shitty pressure at the old house I was renting. FWIW I got an Oxygenics head, somewhat skeptical that it would have any worthwhile effect, but to my delight it made my showering experience much, much better.

+++ I bought one for me, then bought two more as gifts for family members. They're great.

Not sure if this helps, but I found out by accident that the limiter in our showerhead, that seemed to be a part of the head itself, was just a reverse screwed in piece.

All it took was a screw-driver large enough, and it came out no problem. That said, once I removed it the flow was probably the hardest we have ever had in an apartment. Matter of fact my wife lost control of it, and the thing was whipping around like a bloody water wiggler.